The Shadybrook Asylum also known as the Shadybrook Rest Home and Sanitarium (SBRH&S) or the Shadybrook Psychiatric Hospital is a recurring location from Halloween Horror Nights, most heavily identified with the, "Psychoscearapy" series of haunted houses.
Description
The Shadybrook Asylum is located near the town of Shadybrook ("A Pleasant Place to Live"), and within Seneca Falls, New York at the address 133 Black Brook Road. Shadybrook is often depicted as being cruel towards their inmates, using inhumane means of therapy, and being prone to various riots and break-outs. Shadybrook is also haunted by those who died within the building.
Known staff
Features
- Shadybrook Estates:
History
Background
Early history
Born in the Shadybrook Asylum were Jack and Eddie Schmidt with a highly abusive family.
In the late 19th century, the asylum was terrorized by beings known as, "The Gentlemen" also known as, "The Body Collectors" during a blizzard. These entities functioned by harvesting the body parts of corpses.
In the year 1911, the town of Shadybrook was founded.
At some point (prior to 1939), Jack orchestrated a riot which he used to escape from Shadybrook while leaving Eddie behind.
By 1951, Shadybrook was run by a woman administrator named Sybil Estep who was said to have treated Shadybrook as a tranquil rest home. By/around this time, Shadybrook has rebranded as the Shadybrook Rest Home and Sanitarium.
On the October 51 of 1951, Jeffrey Dietze admitted himself to Shadybrook for therapy after learning the secrets of the wax museum which he had inherited from his father.
In 1965, Shadybrook was established as the, "Shadybrook Psychiatric Hospital".[1]
Maximum Madness
By 2006, Shadybrook changed owners after Sybil's death, and Shadybrook became more amoral. Sybil's daughter, Michelle Estep-Spencer, stayed working at Shadybrook as president.
At some point (likely around 2006), Jack was institutionalized within the Shadybrook Asylum where he was born (against the wishes of president Estep-Spencer). Jack may have sent letters to his brother, Eddie, in San Francisco. These letters were stamped to be returned to their sender. Around this time, health inspectors deemed the asylum too unsanitary to live in due to smeared feces across the restrooms. Jack amassed a large following within the asylum and was imitated by other inmates, and he used this power to throw riots.
On the September 13th of 2006, Michelle Estep-Spencer resigned from Shadybrook with a warning for the new owners about Jack. Jack later lead a mass breakout of the asylum.
At some point, a wrongfully convicted man named Floyd Mercer was transferred to Shadybrook from Hellgate Prison. Floyd was actually faking his insanity in-order to escape from the entity, Lady Luck while writing about Lady Luck in his journal.
Home for the Holidays
At some point (possibly in 2007), Shadybrook's board of off-site community trips voted on taking a van of inmates to attend a Holiday Concert at the Rest Vale Senior Center in Seneca Falls. This decision was mainly opposed by Dr. Kameron Andrews who requested that his disapproval be noted on all documents. On the December 24 of 2007, a van load of Shadybrook inmates set for a, "Holiday Field Trip" crashed causing the inmates to escape into Seneca Falls. That New Year's Eve, the inmates went on a murderous rampage through a quiet neighbourhood where the massacred and mutilated various innocents.
Echoes of Shadybrook
Note: It has yet to be identified when the 2010 haunted house PsychoScareapy: Echoes of Shadybrook takes place in the timeline.
Shadybrook asylum was closed down at some point in time. A year later, former patient Floyd Mercer hanged himself to death.
Fifteen years after the closure of the asylum, several teens on a dare entered the asylum only to find it to be haunted.
Later history
In the year 2010, the asylum was investigated by Legendary Truth: The Collective. They recorded footage of ghosts which they then sent back for study.
At some point (possibly around 2015), a transport vehicle of Shadybrook inmates crashed into the Halloween Block Party of the town of Shadybrook. These inmates went on a murderous rampage through Shadybrook.
On the June 27th of 2016, it was announced by newspapers that Jack the Clown's protégée "Chance" was being institutionalized in Shadybrook. Here, Chance entered a, "Theatre of the Mind" where she had nightmarish delusions. She would recruit several inmates of Shadybrook for her murderous plans.
Appearances
Halloween Horror Nights
A Chance In Hell
The story of A Chance In Hell surrounded Chance recruiting Shadybrook inmates for her evil schemes.
Body Collectors: Recollections
This haunted house took place in 19th century Shadybrook during a blazed while the Gentlemen invaded.
Halloween Horror Nights XIV
The website mentioned Shadybrook with a connection to the story of the haunted house Horror in Wax.
Lunatic's Playground 3D
The plot of this haunted house surrounded Chance being institutionalized in Shadybrook.
Psychoscareapy
This haunted house took place in Shadybrook during a riot.
PsychoScareapy: Echoes of Shadybrook
This haunted house took place in a haunted Shadybrook, fifteen years after the asylum's closure.
Psychoscareapy: Home for the Holidays
In this attraction, various inmates escaped Shadybrook and rampaged through a town on Christmas Eve.
PsychoScareapy: Maximum Madness
This haunted house surrounded Jack the Clown's escape from Shadybrook in 2006.
PsychoScareapy: Unleashed
In this scarezone there was a crashed Shadybrook vehicle and several escaped inmates.
Trivia
- In PsychoScareapy: Echoes of Shadybrook, there is a bottle of the fictional drug Sleep-Well spilled across the floor. This is a fictional drug from the 2007 haunted house A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dreamwalkers where it was used to prevent nightmares (and Freddy Krueger).
- The name of Nurse Wallace from the "NURSE WALLACE MUST DIE" message in PsychoScareapy: Echoes of Shadybrook was a tribute to one of the haunted house's designers.
- Various other asylums/mental-institutions which have appeared in Halloween Horror Nights have had theorized/speculated connections to the Shadybrook Asylum.
References
- ↑ Established years on Shadybrook vehicles found in ''Psychoscareapy: Home for the Holidays''